WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to lift a longstanding U.S. ban on family travel and remittances to Cuba, a senior administration official said Friday, in what could be an opening gesture toward more openness with the Castro regime.
The move will fulfill a campaign promise and follows more modest action in Congress this year to [...]
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Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold
US companies are queuing up as the president moves to ease restrictions on travel and trade, raising hopes of warmer relations and an end to the embargo.
President Barack Obama is poised to offer an olive branch to Cuba in an effort to repair the [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We must recognize the ineffectiveness of our current policy and deal with the Cuban [...]
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Cigar Aficionado Magazine has a very interesting article in there current issue, describing in detail what President Obama should do on the Cuban Embargo issue and why. It’s a very long article but worth a read as it makes a lot of sense.
Perhaps one day we can all enjoy a LEGAL Cuban cigar.
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While the nation is pondering the current stimulus bill, a few enlightened lawmarkers have introduced a bill that would allow travel to Cuba for the first time since 1963. While it appears to not address the importing of cigars, or bringing cigars back from a trip to Cuba, this bill does create unrestricted travel to [...]
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It’s that time of year again in Cuba! Monday marked the start of the 10th Festival del Habano, Cuba’s “cigar week”. The Festival is important as there are a ton of new product introductions, seminars, contests and visits to the tobacco fields and factories. Kind of like the RTDA show here in [...]
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